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Every so often, though, one is nudged out of orbit by a chance encounter with some other object; it plunges in toward the sun, heats up and releases gases and dust that form a halo and stream away in a long, magnificent tail...
...been identified with absolute certainty as a black hole. But if further observations support the team’s initial conclusions, then IC 10 X-1 will be confirmed as a black hole 20 to 30 times more massive than the sun. Black holes are objects that form when massive stars collapse at the end of their lives. They are so dense that nothing, not even light, can escape from them. “It’s really hard for a single star to make a black hole of more than 20 solar masses,” Prestwich said...
...Eventually we got down to brass tacks,” Rivers said. “I was actually surprised that we got him to commit to anything in that form...
Currently, the funding arrives either in the form of military equipment or as virtually unfettered cash, for Musharraf's government to do with as it pleases. But the options are limited. The U.S. might get the Musharraf government to focus on counter-terrorism by cutting off money that would otherwise go toward paying down Pakistan's debt. However, that might just help Musharraf's military in silencing the opposition. Pakistan watchers are concerned that U.S. money is being diverted from counter-terrorism to anti-democratic crackdowns like this...
...before falling to hometown favorite and sixth seed Sam Chang in three sets, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.Clayton, seeded fourth, won his opening match in what he called a “dogfight,” 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-3. True to form, his second match was another three-hour-plus marathon that he eventually won, 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.“It was not a pretty match,” Clayton said. “But it was a match I needed to win, definitely a situation where we won playing ugly tennis...